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My Short-Term Goal: A Career As A Medical Assistant

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My short-term goal is to find a new job. I like my job right now but it’s starting to take a toll on me. I work at an assistant living for over 4 years now, and I’m starting to get attached the residents. Some of the residents I got the closes with have passed away or moved into a nursing home. Where I work, we aren’t allowed to have that personal connection, so when someone moves away, we aren’t allowed to go visit them. I would like to work at a hospital or a clinic. Somewhere that will help me received a medical assistant job. I completed my resume and placed it on Indeed.com so wish me luck. With that being said, my mid-term goal would be to complete the medical assistant program at Kaplan on the Deans list. I was never one who cared about there grades. In high school, my parents moved me from Arizona to Iowa and to get back at them I thought it would be a good idea to not try in school. So getting on the Deans list the first term of Kaplan surprised my family and I! I want to show them I can do it all through Kaplan. …show more content…

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